Sources of Company and Corporation Financial Information:

Hoover's Pro Online
Hoover's provides basic information, including financials, company history, officers and salaries, employees, subsidiaries, products, and competitors for more than 18,000 public and private U.S. and international companies. Links are provided to company homepages and public filings, such as 10-K and annual reports.

Lexis-Nexis Academic
Choose "Business," then "Company Financial" to search for information on thousands of publicly-traded companies and millions of private companies in the U.S. and worldwide.

Business and Company
Providing researchers with information on companies, markets and industries. From market trends, mergers and acquisitions to current management theory and company overviews. Access business and trade journals, newspapers and company directory profiles with full text and images.

General Business File
Analyze company performance and activity, industry events and trends as well as the latest in management, economics and politics. Access to a combination of broker research reports, trade publications, newspapers, journals and company directory listings with full text and images available.

ABI/INFORM
Indexes and abstracts articles in business and management with many articles appearing in full-text. Includes more than 2000 titles.

EDGAR (SEC)
The official SEC website for company filings.

EDGAR-Online People
This service has the best indexing for searching for people in the SEC data. While searching is free, there are charges for full documents. A great way to find out the companies with which a particular insider is affiliated. Once you've found the companies, switch to the free version of EDGAR for the documents. Searches only proxy statements.

SEC Info Search engine for the Edgar database.

10K Wizard.com
Allows full text searches of SEC documents. For example,can search for Albion College alumni by entering Albion College in the Word Search field.

eComp Executive Compensation Database
Search the database by company name or ticker symbol to find executive compensation for officers and directors of public companies. Data includes name, title, salary, bonus, and total direct executive compensation.

Forbes PeopleTracker
Requires free registration. Search for and monitor information and news about public company executives. Search for executives by name or company stock symbol. Information provided includes the individual's title, compensation, and stock options, as well as news stories about the officer and the company. Searchers may opt to receive email updates.

CBS Market Watch Insiders
Good source for insider trade information.

Executive PayWatch

Corporate Library - Company Research

State of Michigan Corporation Division Business Entity Search
Search for records of domestic corporations, limited liability companies, and limited partnerships and of foreign corporations, and limited partnerships qualified to transact business in the state.

Yahoo Finance
Search for company news, profiles, and stock quotes, etc.

The Scannery
The Scannery is an investor focused web search platform that only searches the websites of public companies from around the world. The Scannery covers over 12,000 companies and includes the S&P 500, Euro 400, and the Global 1000.

Corporate Affiliations.com
"LexisNexis has launched a new site that provides linkage information for almost 200,000 parent companies, affiliates, and subsidiaries. You'll have to pay large bucks for full reports, but you can get a decent amount of information just with the free search."

Companies in the news:

Lexis-Nexis Academic
Provides access to full text news articles from thousands of U.S. and international sources, including "national and regional newspapers, wire services, broadcast transcripts, international news, and non-English language sources". Coverage varies by title, but many titles date back to the 1980s.

InfoTrac Custom Full Text Newspapers
Contains full text articles from 150 newspapers, including the Grand Rapids Press (since July 2000), and the New York Times (past 12 months only).

Selected Michigan Newspapers
Contains full text articles from selected Michigan newspapers, including the Grand Rapids Press (since July 2000), the Detroit News (since January 1999), the Lansing State Journal (since January 1999), the Port Huron Times Herald (since December 2001), and the Battle Creek Enquirer.

New York Times
Full text for most recent 12 months only.

Chicago Tribune
Full text from 1985 to present.

Detroit Free Press
Full text from 1982 to present.

Detroit News
Full text from 1999 to present.

Albion College Library Full Text Finder
Many journals, magazines, and newspapers are available in full text through online databases. To search for availability of full text articles from a particular source, look for the title of the journal, magazine, or newspaper by following the appropriate links on this web page.